Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes? He went to Eng land, technically, as President of the American Bar Association. But he has already visited, besides, France, Belgium and Germany. As a Minister of Foreign Affairs, he is, of course, expected to say more than a Minister of Finance. He has said more, if words are the measure; but has said very little more if significance is the criterion...
...holiday or a picnic, or from any desire to give vent to our emotions, but because we are charged with a responsibility to our race to enter on the vast duty of Empire building. We are here to redeem the 12,000,000 miles of our native land...
...procedure of giving the Dominions an effective voice in the Commonwealth's foreign policy. ¶ The Chancellor of the Exchequer outlined the Government's plan for dealing with unemployment. The projects embraced electrification of railways, building of new drainage works, reforestation of 50,000 acres of land, a plan to cheapen electric power, etc. The whole project is eventually to cost the taxpayer about $350,000,000. ¶ A future international arms parley was again made subject of a discussion. C. G. Ammon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, answering a question on the Government's naval construction...
...diver on the sea bottom, 50 ft. down, described what he saw. As anybody knows who has been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...
...English ships. He rose through all the grades of seamanship? from man 'before the mast to master. There was no sea that did not know him. Not infrequently, health failed him for a time. One of these occasions was when he made his only visit to the Congo, the land which had first inspired his wanderings. In 1884, he became an English subject and in the same year obtained his Master's ticket. When he changed his allegiance from Russia to England, he also changed his name, retaining only part of it, anglicizing its spelling?thus becoming Joseph Conrad...